Takes another town held by the world before after. Strained a relationship the Syrian Government seizes the assets of president Bashar Al Assads cousin and billionaire businessman. And sport professional rugby players in new zealand are back on the training failed we report on the countrys efforts to secure its National Sports financial future. So that me United States is facing a growing backlash everetts threat to permanently halt funding to the w. H. O. And that is after president told trump said the organizations missteps have come out and extract costs. And i think theyve done a. Very sad job in the last period of time. And again the United States pays them 450000000. 00 a year china pays them 38000000. 00 a year and theyre a puppet of china. China centric to put it nicely but theyre a puppet of china well russia has become the latest global power to condemn threats its Deputy Foreign minister has been quoted as saying that it is against breaking the w. H. O. For another members p
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To end the wildlife trade why of the chinese officials are stepping into the market. The best occasion is to be held in to how the world has responded to corona virus says the number of infections approaches 5000000 the World Health Organizations 194 Member States of voted unanimously for an independent and impartial inquiry including an examination of its role the move has been welcomed by the director general who said that it wanted accountability more than anyone. The u. N. Bodies being under attack from the u. S. Which is accused of being too close to china president toms threaten to cut all funding unless there is what he calls substantive improvements within the next 30 days but his demands are also under fire from washington d. C. Mike hanna reports. President trump arrives on capitol hill for a meeting with Senate Republicans continuing to flow out his administrations own guidelines by not wearing a mask in public and lashing out at the speaker of the House Democrat nancy pelos
The u. S. Senate passes a new law curbing the president s power to attack iran. For the 2nd day in a row the number of coronavirus cases has surged in the chinese province at the hospital officials in her base say nearly 5000 new people were confirmed to have the virus on thursday and the total number of people infected across the country has now risen 264000 while theres still not a kill one hospital is saying that there are signs blood transfusions from people whove recovered from the virus could be an effective treatment the World Health Organization is saying the mortality rate of the virus is still at about 2 percent and that is less fatal than the sars epidemic of 17 years ago. We can go live that adrian brown our correspondent in hong kong so a raft of new figures coming out on the daily basis adrian how much confidence in the people of china have as to the transparency in the validity of these numbers coming from their government. Well i think certainly while the aljazeera team
57 newsroom at cbs headquarters here in new york. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. We could soon be getting a glimpse into the closed door interviews by house investigators in the impeachment inquiry into President Trump. Democrats are expected to start releasing transcripts of the interviews as early as today. Theyve also asked nearly a dozen more people to testify this week about mr. Trumps dealings with ukraine. Laura podesta is here in new york. The president renewed his call for the anonymous whistleblower to be identified. What did he say . Reporter yeah, the president said the whistleblower is, quote, antitrump and that person gave a very inaccurate report about the phone call with the president of ukraine. He also claimed via tweet that the news media knows the whistleblowers identity but is covet President Trump ramped up his attacks on the anonymous whistleblower this weekend. The whistleblower should be revealed because the whistleblower gave false stories. Some peop